R print object to file [duplicate]-CodePudding

In R, is there any way to print an object, such as summary of a linear model, to a txt file? print() can print out the object nicely but I can't find a way to redirect the output. cat() on the other hand don't seem to be able to handle lists, I got this error back:

Error in cat(summary(lin_model), file = paste0(output_dir, "/linear_model_output.txt")) : 
  argument 1 (type 'list') cannot be handled by 'cat'

CodePudding user response：

Yes, you can use sink() prior to and after your print. The first call contains the path to your output file.

In your case:

sink(file.path(output_dir, "linear_model_output.txt"))
print(summary(lin_model))
sink()